Amended title and scope
- Section 2 amends the title of Republic Act No. 124 to: “An Act to require certain private schools, colleges and universities in the Philippines to provide medical and dental service for pupils and students.”
- Section 1 applies the medical and dental service requirement to private school, college, or university administrators.
- Section 1 requires the covered institutions to provide service for pupils and students enrolled therein.
- Section 1 covers institutions with a total enrollment of at least three hundred and one thousand.
Medical and dental service duty
- Section 1 requires the principal, director and/or president of a covered private school, college, or university to provide a physician and dentist, either part or full time.
- Section 1 fixes the effective duty start date for private schools, colleges and universities at July first, nineteen hundred and forty-seven.
- Section 1 requires the physician and dentist to render medical and dental service to enrolled pupils and students.
- Section 1 requires the physician and dentist to render quarterly reports of school health activities.
Quarterly reporting requirement
- Section 1 requires reports at the end of every quarter: end of September, December, March and June of each school year.
- Section 1 requires quarterly reports to be submitted to the Director of Health.
- Section 1 directs that quarterly reports cover school health activities.
Supervision by Bureau of Health
- Section 1 places the physician and dentist under the direct supervision of the Bureau of Health.
Rules and regulations authority
- Section 1 (amending Section 2 of Republic Act No. 124) requires the Bureau of Health to issue rules and regulations on the medical and dental service.
- Section 1 (amending Section 2 of Republic Act No. 124) mandates that these rules and regulations govern the medical and dental service that private schools, colleges, and universities in the Philippines must provide.